Horace Mann Quotes

Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

Learning has freed more men than all the armies in human history.

If you want to improve a country, you first need to know it, to listen to it.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power

I would make the case that the vast majority of prisoners leave prison and go back into society. We share that society with them and what sort of people do we want them to be.

The enemies of a people are those who keep them in ignorance.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

The free man cannot be long an ignorant man.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Education is freedom.

Freedom can occur only through education.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.